Posts Tagged ‘XML’

Content strategy – so much to learn

{ Posted on Sep 01 2009 by annegentle }
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I just ordered Kristina Halvorson's (@halvorson on Twitter) book, Content Strategy for the Web after viewing "10 things every business person needs to know about content strategy" slideshare.net presentation (by Melissa Rach). Powerful stuff!10 things every business person should know ...Read More »

Managing Writers book includes well-earned experience stories

{ Posted on Feb 27 2009 by annegentle }
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Categories : techpubs
Richard Hamilton's new book, Managing Writers: A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation, is clearly organized and a fast read. It often reads like a reference guide, a book you could keep on your bookshelf for years to come. It ...Read More »

Notes from CenTX DITA Users Group – panel on the DITA Maturity Model

{ Posted on Oct 25 2008 by annegentle }
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For our October meeting, we simply asked several Austin-based techpubs teams to review the DITA Maturity Model and to think ahead of time about how you would position your own DITA efforts: Where do you think your team is in the ...Read More »

DocTrain West 2008 – Joe Gollner, XML in the Wilderness

{ Posted on May 08 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : DITA, writing
Here are my notes from the morning keynote with Joe Gollner. This session was a wonderful kickoff for the conference. For the first time, someone was able to connect for me that XML enabled Web 2.0 connectivity. The social web is ...Read More »

Can DITA train writers? Or does it require too much programming?

{ Posted on Feb 13 2008 by annegentle }
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DITA for writers (content creators) I just did a search on amazon.com for books for beginning technical writers and also to investigate what books are being written for our profession and for others wanting to start in our profession. I came ...Read More »

Author-it and converting UTF-16 to UTF-8

{ Posted on Dec 04 2007 by annegentle }
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In trying to modify multiple Author-it topics (okay, 5,119 topics) with variable assignments, I have had to work with the XML output that Author-it exports. To export to XML, you select a topic or multi-select topics, then right-click on the selection ...Read More »

Q and A about Author-it and DITA – guest post from Mike Stockman

{ Posted on Nov 29 2007 by annegentle }
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I read this recent conversation on the author-it-users Yahoo Group with interest. I haven't had a need to author DITA topics with Author-it, so I have to rely on others for information on how it works. With Mike Stockman's and ...Read More »

7 things you must know about ePublisher Platform

{ Posted on Nov 13 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : writing
Content is king. Your source content can be Word, Frame, or DITA. You can even import convert other formats such as RoboHelp to Word or Frame and go from there. Formats are separate from content and can be customized. Combining content is ...Read More »

Author-it webinar on version 5.0

{ Posted on Oct 08 2007 by annegentle }
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Our team is so excited for the new Author-it version 5.0 that we invited other Austin techpubs teams over to our office to watch the US & Canada webinar. It was like a movie premiere. Okay, we're not really that ...Read More »

DITA round up

{ Posted on Aug 09 2007 by annegentle }
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Just doing a little data mining of the posts I've written about DITA in the last few years. I think that there's a gap for DITA users who are writers or content creators and not coders. I'd like to say ...Read More »
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